Tag: Border Closure
Border closure: NCS seizes items worth N12. 36bn
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said that it confiscated pump-action guns, cartridges/ammunition, bags of rice, drums of premium motor spirit, popularly called petrol...
Poultry industry saves N50bn from border closure – NIAS
The Nigerian Institute of Animal Science (NIAS) has taken stock of the closure of Nigerian land since borders since October saying the move has...
Border closure not sustainable solution to smuggling – LCCI
The director
general of Lagos Chamber of Commerce, (LCCI), Mr. Muda Yusuf, has called on the
federal government to address the root cause of rice smuggling,...
Terrible economics of the border closure
Dr Nnaemeka Obiaraeri
Closing Nigeria’s borders to stop smuggling of rice and other
goods into Nigeria from neighbouring West African countries is one of the most
crude...